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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Coalition and Greens team up to force Labor to release emissions modelling

Steam billows from a coal-fired power station
The Albanese government has until 4pm on Thursday to produce modelling of how major industrial emitters would use carbon credits under the proposed safeguard mechanism. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Jim Chalmers has accused opponents of Labor’s renewable energy policies of spinning wheels in “ideological cul-de-sacs”, as the Coalition and Greens team up to force the government to release emissions modelling.

On Tuesday the Senate rejected the Albanese government’s public interest immunity claim, meaning it will be forced to release forecasts of how big industrial emitters would use carbon credits to meet obligations created by the proposed safeguard mechanism.

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